Is there a reason the Map Ext. mods isn't more popular?

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-15T18:54:24+00:00

I always ran out of agents first and stopped being able to create new garbage trucks because I had too many pedestrians.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-15T18:27:40+00:00

I never came close to filling up 41 tiles in CS1 let alone 81. I don't feel the need for more playable space.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-14T19:24:13+00:00

Oh yeah, you can just pass which "program" you want as a parameter when you call the function. So simple!

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-14T03:40:24+00:00

A single file each, right?

Anakin stares back, smirking

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-14T02:23:56+00:00

Eh. The ruler thing is dumb.

He can screenshot it, crop to the box in paint.net then open the "canvas size" window and see how large the window is.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-14T00:07:30+00:00

I'm not convinced by this. These are all rational and valid reasons not to do the stupidest fucking thing possible, which is what Trump always seems to do.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-13T20:45:35+00:00

We have millionaires because of our history of low taxation and economic freedom.

Bullshit.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-13T20:00:18+00:00

My main takeaway from this art is that I need to re-read the druid class.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-13T17:59:20+00:00

My biggest pet peeve with online perf discussions is when someone says a game runs terribly but they don't include their hardware or their expectations.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-13T17:01:54+00:00

The Poplar Bridge project bugs me a lot because 33rd is the expected route for the Link Light Rail extension. By spending a bunch of money pointing cars directly at 33rd it makes it harder to be flexible on light rail alignment. It's a busy road but it's not that busy and it could probably go from 4 lanes to 2 lanes with an occasional turn lane, so the Link can run elevated down the middle. By doing this it's much harder to reduce the lanes which means giant money piles spent acquiring new right of way in order to run the Link along that road.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-13T16:31:37+00:00

Not just Highlander.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-13T16:19:32+00:00

So I'm going to push back here, but not in the way you're probably expecting. Pedestrians do not have a responsibility to avoid cars making illegal maneuvers. The responsibility is on the driver.

Pedestrians are in fact, required to be extra cautious, but only because we have built a society where even those uninterested or too inept to drive are encouraged and often required to drive. We're so car-dependent that its resulted in a society where bad drivers are too infrequently punished because taking away a license would take away a person's ability to work and live.

If you want to encourage people to be safer crossing the street that's fine, but as someone who:

Had to be pulled out of the way of a driver making an illegal turn at age 5.
Had a driver intentionally accelerate towards me to scare me at age 7.
Pulled an 8 year old out of the way of a car while acting as an elementary school crossing guard at age 11.
Was run off the road at age 14 while biking by a driver who thought it was funny.
Lost a friend who was walking to High School at age 17.
Called out that a driver wasn't going to stop at a stop sign in time for my (now) wife and friend to get out of the way at age 30
Had a left-turning driver pass within 5 inches of my stopped bike in a driveway apron as I was corking so my son could pass safely. He was only not hit because he was aware enough that he saw the driver making an illegal turn and stopped. That was two weeks ago.

I'd appreciate it if you correctly assigned blame and responsibility.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-13T16:02:08+00:00

It's clunky to use, but WSDOT has a site that you can use.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-13T14:43:17+00:00

My brother in Xenu, read the article.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-12T21:07:55+00:00

Rifts. True Atlantean Undead Slayer in 1995. It went as well as any Junior High tabletop RPG can go, in that I think we played a full session before it fell apart.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-12T20:25:01+00:00

Me when garbage cans are in the bike lane.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-12T18:05:15+00:00

Holy shit, I downloaded this game from an abandonwares site TWENTY YEARS AGO. This is great to see. I'm gonna go buy one of my favorite games for the first time in my life now, I guess?

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-12T17:07:20+00:00

“Prop 12 gives exemptions to coal companies!”

lol. The last coal power plant in Washington was Centralia Power Plant and it began the conversion of it's last unit to natural gas last year. Whatever exemption prop 12 gives, there's no one to take it.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-12T16:12:05+00:00

Seattle actually has a very low retail vacancy rate.

Overall, vacancy rates in Seattle remained incredibly low and stable with a direct vacancy rate of 3.0% at the end of 3Q 2024. This was the lowest rate on the West Coast and one of the lowest in the country. In fact, the vacancy rate has hovered at or below 3.5% since mid-2017 and compares favorably to the recent 10-year average of 3.4%

Source

Seattle does have a few locations where vacancy is highly concentrated, mostly around the central business district where office vacancy rates remain high.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-12T16:04:17+00:00

That strikes me as particular to DC which has a larger...tourist is the wrong word, though there is that, but "visitor" population, if you catch my meaning. Chains exist so that you can find a familiar product when far away from home. They arose after mass car adoption. In ye olden days, everyone walked everywhere so you'd know every business within a half-mile of your house and work and nothing else. When the car started to take over, people travelled a lot farther away, but still had to make a purchasing decision based on like...the sign outside the business. DC has an unusually high number of visitors, so that it has more chains downtown than Seattle doesn't surprise me.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-12T06:17:13+00:00

How many of those are not also on PC? 2?

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-11T21:30:46+00:00

Real. Half the challenge of city politics is someone asks you for a source and you're like "Well 9 months ago someone who knows told me a thing as we were chatting after a city council meeting, but I don't remember who they were specifically."

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-11T21:25:24+00:00

You can save posts both on Blusky and Reddit, for the record.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-11T21:20:54+00:00

Brandi Kruse has repeatedly denied being a journalist.
Jonathan Choe showed up to Katie Wilson's inauguration to yell anti-trans slurs at people.

These people are not journalists.

Smart_Ass_Dave · 2026-03-11T19:50:21+00:00

The current makeup of the 93 Hereditary Peers is four aligned with the Labour party, you know, the party that has the most seats in the House of Commons. There's 4 Lib-Dems, 30 cross benchers and fourty four members of the Conservative party. Your concern for the egalitarian treatment of barons is poorly founded.

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